Does it save energy?
Whenever people think of alternative energy sources they assume high installation costs and are suspicious of the performance of such alternatives. This is quite normal as many schemes proved to be expensive and had poor performance.
IPPEC has been offering twin coils cylinders at very reasonable cost. It is inevitable that this will be followed by affordable solar panels to feed one coil of those cylinders.
We have been advising customers to choose the twin coil cylinders at an early stage. They can connect the solar panel later to the cylinder.
New solar control units are available from IPPEC to control the solar pump panel and the boiler. These control units are being incorporated in Quickheat system as an option.
With gas condensing boilers, warm water underfloor heating, weather compensation and now solar heating the future of heating in your home is now here. From IPPEC.

Innovations in Solar Heating
We provide further solutions in heating using solar panels and cylinders. Solar panels can provide most of your domestic hot water heating. Now we use the excess heat generated in the panels as a heat source for the Pexatherm underfloor heating. The boiler can draw pre-warmed water to supply the floor with warmth. The boilert uses about half or less as much energy as it would have used without the solar heating.

For those home owners without gas or oil they can use our solar cylinders as a heat source. The two immersion heaters operating on low tariff electricity are supplemented by solar panel heating. The low temperature of Pexatherm underfloor heating can be sufficient at times to satisfy the underfloor heating system on its own. In the case of underfloor heating the floor acts as a solar heat storage too.

Does it really work?
A total of 1350 hours of sunshine per annum are experienced on average in the UK according to the Met. Office. Areas in the north have about 1250 hrs pa while in the south the sunshine could up to 1470 hrs pa. There are 8 months when the sun is out for more than 100 hrs per months. Four of these months the sun is out for well over 150 hrs per month. Only two month in the year the sunshine is less than 50 hrs per months.
This translates to an approximate output of 1575 kWh per year for a typical 2 panels (4 m2) system at 30% input from the sun. Capturing this energy will save householders money and reduce the CO2 emitted from burning fossil fuel at home or in the electricity power station.